"I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group"

-- Peggy McIntosh

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“It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.”
“There will be roadblocks but we will overcome them.”

Source : "5 Tips For Marketing To Generation Z" by Deep Patel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2016.
“Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.”

Source : Roger Penrose (1999). “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics”, p.580, OUP Oxford
“The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.”
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
“My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime.”
“I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.”

Source : "Richard Simmons On The Best Advice He Ever Got". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.
“I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.”

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